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In the last couple of days, Mitt Romney has been savaged — SAVAGED — by the Boston Herald, Boston’s conservative newspaper. Some examples: This morning, Casey Ross writes about all the MA Republicans who are supporting other candidates. This morning, the editorial board wrote a scathing attack that ended with, "But he won’t get too [...]
On Sunday, Patrick Ruffini, paid by Hizzoner, made the argument that the Democratic primary may get 2/3rds of the media coverage. This would make it harder for 2nd-tier candidates to "pop" into the first tier. This would favor the people that the press take seriously, which, right now, seems to be John McCain, Rudy Giuliani, [...]
The Boston media is not taking kindly to Mitt Romney’s announce in Michigan today. A number of Massachusetts Republican leaders are signing up to McCain. But perhaps the most vicious is his treatment by his local Fox affiliate: Word on the street is that a number of Massachusetts Republicans are going to step up and [...]
Update: The Romney campaign has put the article back up! They call it "a glitch". However, they have removed the article from the list of press releases or a list of "All News". I agree with Race42008, which called this, "Team Romney first big goof" and Rob Bluey says it may be a "flip-flopping on [...]
Update: Whoever’s mistake it was, it has been pulled. Mitt Romney’s attack on Brian Camenker has been criticized in a number of places (I did it here). However, National Journal’s Danny Glover has what might be the beginning of the explanation: Carl Forti doesn’t get the new media: Yes, that’s right, the same Mitt Romney [...]
Yesterday I praised some of the ideas behind Rudy Giuliani’s WSJ piece. However, some people have responded that it demonstrated a sort of smallness of vision. Dick Morris has just written on precisely this, and I think that it speaks to Rudy’s weakness: In President Bush’s speech on Wednesday night, he gave graphic evidence of [...]
This can’t be smart. There goes Romney’s good media week. Romney launches an ad hominem attack against Brian Camecker, author of the the Mitt Romney Deception piece. Romney has been bleeding from that and an AP story about it. In an attempt to undermine Camenker’s credibility, Romney’s campaign says: Camenker Admits He Used To Be [...]
The YouTube video of Mitt Romney during a 1994 debate with Ted Kennedy shows him to be an eloquent defender of gay rights and abortion rights and dismissive of Ronald Reagan. Romney released a YouTube video of his own (per David All’s best practices) claiming that he had been wrong on some issues in the [...]
The recent stir-up involving the Vanity Fair article about John McCain and Mitt Romney dodging hard interviews have made me think a little bit about the strategies of the two campaigns regarding the media. Romney is clearly building his own media apparatus. He has donated money to National Review, recruited his Great Disciple K-Lo, and [...]
Rudy Giuliani has a fundraiser tonight. What does John McCain do? Same thing he did at the RGA meeting. He tries to steal the news/blog cycle by announcing his NY Finance Committee. This morning, before the announcement, McCain got people talking about his fundraising machine ("nearly 7 of 10 Bush 2004 donors are Straight Talk [...]
